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BIOCLIMATIC AND AIR QUALITY CONDITIONS IN THE GREATER ATHENS AREA, GREECE, DURING THE WARM PERIOD OF THE YEAR: TRENDS, VARIABILITY AND PERSISTENCE
(2012)The aim of this work is to study the bioclimatic conditions as well as the air quality for three different regions of the greater Athens area (GAA), during the warm period of the year for the time period 2001-2005. ... -
Building an Attractive Investment Image: An Entrepreneurial Perspective for The City of Larissa, in Thessaly Region, Greece
(2009)The new economic and social structural changes, both at an international and European level, have influenced the cities' profile by creating high-level competitiveness and attractiveness within various cities. This fact ... -
Examining urban sprawl in Europe using spatial metrics
(2015)Urbanisation is a global phenomenon with an important impact on the quality of human life. Europe has been widely affected by urbanisation. One of the main characteristics of urban growth is sprawl, a negative form of urban ... -
Growth, integration, and regional disparities in the European Union
(2005)In this paper we challenge the ability of the conventional methods initiated by Barro and Sala-i-Martin in the early 1990s to detect actual convergence or divergence trends across countries or regions and suggest an ... -
Monitoring urban sprawl using simulated PROBA-V data
(2014)Urbanization proceeds currently at a rapid pace and the impact on natural ecosystems cannot be neglected. Consequently, it is important to be able to monitor the expansion of urban areas. Yet the process of extracting them ... -
Place Marketing, Strategic Planning and Competitiveness: The Case of Malta
(2009)This article investigates place marketing and strategic planning processes in the case of Malta Island as a competitive tourist destination. The article focuses on the main ingredients that compose the marketing and strategic ... -
Portraying, classifying and understanding the emerging landscapes in the post-industrial city
(2006)This paper examines landscape transformations in the post-industrial city. It attempts to portray, classify and understand the emerging landscapes in terms of land use patterns, urban morphology and density. It is argued ... -
Recent developments in the Greek system of urban centres
(2000)In this paper we examine the recent developments in the Greek system of urban centres, in order to assess the validity of the view that trends of deconcentration have been in operation during the last decade. Estimation ...